Hope In Shadows is a charitable organization that works with several non-profit organizations, focusing on Vancouver’s impoverished Downtown Eastside. Their main project each year is a photography contest and calendar, coordinated by Pivot Legal Society. This contest gives low-income residents of the community an opportunity to take pictures with single use cameras, sharing what the community means to them. Of the photos taken, forty are selected to go into an exhibition, twelve of which are then featured in a calendar. Selling the calendar provides a dignified, meaningful way of employment for residents impacted by poverty as they become vendors of the calendars in their community.

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